Hi readers! I hope you've enjoyed our Halloween-crazy month of October, where most of our posts were dedicated to Halloween. We are finishing this month with one more phrasal verb: TO TURN INTO (something).

Definition: to become something; to be transformed into something.

Example 1: If you get bit by a vampire, then you turn into a vampire too.

Example 2: Folklore says that he turns into a werewolf when there is a full moon.

Hello, DV readers! I hope your week is going well. Are you ready for another Halloween-related expression? Today we are looking at the phrase JEKYLL AND HYDE PERSONALITY.

Definition: a person whose moral character changes in different situations; someone who seems to have very different personalities depending on the situation.

This comes from the book Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. You can read the book online and you can also listen to it as an audio-book. Here is a link to one of the many audio-books for this novel.

Hello, readers! For the last few Tense Tuesday lessons, we have looked at words we commonly use with the Present Progressive. Today, we are looking at one more, and also looking at how these words were used in a Ziggurat Blog post.

The adverbial phrase AT THE MOMENT is often used with the Present Progressive. It can be used before or after the Present Progressive construction.